History
The use of skis for over-snow travel and winter mountain access has a long history. The first group ski tour in the Alps took place near Davos when the Branger brothers teamed up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from Frauenkirch to Arosa in 1894. The iconic winter Haute Route between Chamonix and Zermatt is finally linked together in 1911.
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